The Washington Times Shaun Waterman August 14, 2013
The U.S. has no plans to send a high-level official to North Korea to help secure the release of imprisoned Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, despite a video plea from him that his health is deteriorating in Pyongyang's gulag.
“I don’t have any plans or anything to announce at this point,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harff told reporters Tuesday.
“I’m not going to venture a guess as to whether that’s something we would consider,” Ms. Harff said when asked whether officials are weighing a response to Mr. Bae’s appeal for a senior envoy to come to Pyongyang.
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